Midnight Wind and Scarlet Rose find themselves in a new world when the inhabitants of Stable 17, forced them to leave. Now in their native land of Thestra "batponies", they begin their journey uncovering the secrets that make up Transylvania

Dovetail and Lilybloom, two mares from Stable 61, are the chosen ponies to be their stable's first scouting party to the world above. What they find will lead them on an epic journey full of hardships in the Equestrian wastes of the Frozen North

Created to protect a Ministry Mare, subject Delta had never been activated. Kept confined within his mind, he had lain still for two hundred years. When discovered by raiders and sold to Red Eye, he discovers that reality is even more of a prison.

Willow, a young doctor in the making, decides to do anything he can to save his mother. Though his plans fall apart. His brother disowns him for his actions, and Willow is quick to leave the only home he's known. His best friend, Amber, follows

One crazy pegasus, one roboleg, a contingent of Steel Rangers, and an adventure of infinite detours. Put all that together and what do you get? A rip-roaring mosh pit wrecking its way across the Wasteland, leaving nothing but confusion in its wake.

Once upon a time, a perfect storm caught six mares and their nation, tearing them all to pieces. But history has started anew, and fate has given them a chance to avert the coming holocaust... if they're in any condition to take it.

Equestria gripped by war and growing more desperate by the day required for more radical means to wage war or to disrupt the enemy. The Ministry of Awesome wanted to get a spy, after Zecora's uncovering, into the heart of the enemy to either kill the leader or sabotage them enough to cripple them so Equestria could succeed but the spy would have to be perfect and so a back door project was started. They look into creating their own half machine and half biological spies and come up with the perfect blend of steel and flesh.

Project Infiltrator.

But what happens when the fruits of this labour wakes up in a world destroyed by war and discovers that its not what it remembers it is? There is one thing that it knows for certain. It wants answers.

PS. After some revision I've been informed that the Ministry of Awesome dealt with advanced technology and spies and thus the story has been edited.

PPS. This is not a Prequel to Broken Steel despite what a couple of websites that link back to this story say.

I liked both Broken Steel and Under the Red Cloud (Dead Money was awesome. All FoNV DLCs were awesome, but this one is my favourite right behind Lonesome Road), so I'm eager to see what you produce next.

You could really need a few commas, would make things a little bit easier to read. Or make some of your sentences a little bit shorter/less interlaced.Since I'm no Englishman or American I can't say much about your grammar/spelling.

To the story:I guess this will be a pre-war fic? Wow. This protagonist is...I don't know the word to describe it. Everything's able to kill her, I wonder how she will do. Is Crystal dead now or will she be upgraded?

I can't really say if it's good so far, since this is merely a prologue, but...it looks promising so far.

Because, really, it is just awful how few good stories have either a robot, brainbot, or even a zebra as the main character. In fact, all three of those reasons are why I want to see more of this, let alone the quite good premise and potential character development.

4486506 You are in luck, chapter 2 "Iron Horse of Speed" has been completed on Sunday night, i'm just awaiting my editor before I upload. I am happy you are liking it so far and I hope you'll continue to enjoy it.

You're going a bit too far here. Careful, or Crystal will seem like a Littlepip clone (which isn't bad, as Littlepip is- SHO AWESHOME!) with how self-sacrificing she was here.

Regardless, loving this so far, especially considering how little action there is in comparison to most FOE stories in favor of progression and the few encounters that do happen, they happen from somehow nerfing the pure fortune of Crystal apparently somehow having untold heights of points in her Luck stat.

Crystal believes she is more durable then a standard pony since she knows she is machine under her skin, that is why she believed she could save that filly in the burning train car. Things will escalate when she gets close to uncovering the truth behind her creation.

But what I meant was in general, Crystal seems to have a natural disposition to help others without any thought to personal gain, just from my analysis of her personality and her interactions with others.

I can see already that in a way, she's your analogous character to Littlepip, and Tooty (I prefer that to Fruity *chuckle*) thus far, seems to be a "corrupted" variant of Calamity, as he's displayed a decent level of Loyalty, but is still questionable in his overall demeanor and ultimate objectives. (seriously, rutting a mare in public? Not cool buck, not cool.)

Also, is the reason Crystal doesn't just eat some metal or glass to fix herself a psychological issue? She could repair herself with some scrap and glass (if like in FOE: PH, she can process glass like gems like "Queen Whiskey" *snort*)

4514979 Fruity has a drink problem which as Slick stated makes him extremely horny, he can easily be manipulated by those giving him drink, i suppose you can summaries the mare had something to do with that.

I'm not trying to make them like Littlepip or Calamity, though I can tell people will think so but I'm not.

I bloody well knew something was going to happen to the train XD especially considering you've clearly put the timeline to be before Littlepip and Blackjack's leaving their respective stables.

Honestly though, I was expecting something more insidious than it being the usual "greed ruins need" scenario, like somehow that racist mung and his goons sabotaged the train to spite the Marshal...which I've noticed you suddenly ignored

Hope that family in particular came out ok, and turns up someday like most characters do in FoE and PH.

4845132 fact is that is quite beautifully true to fact. As shown in Back to the Future III in the climax; if a steam locomotive burns too hot and the steam just builds up violently, then the entire thing turns into a barreling shrapnel deathtrap.

Likely when they went full speed to get through Ponyville (or Pon'evil) they probably didn't properly vent the excess steam as they should have and it blew a gasket or valve, causing it to constantly build up. Which is why those idiots caused it to blow by their stupid greed when they could've saved the engine by venting it properly.

4845410 Yep, forced into service too soon and now they won't ever have a working train line again until after the events of FoE, let alone one as fast and impressive as the one they just blew up.

Also, I didn't bother saying this sooner but I love the new illustrations for the cover of the story and your icon, beings Crystal didn't keep the vault suit, mohawk or be in Manehattan long enough for the previous cover to apply to most of the story, and give us a better visual of Crystal's appearance.

However, you might've released the new cover a bit too soon, you've given spoilers, however slight.

4848108 Woo, industrious. I'd figure it'd take at least a month considering hazards like Geckos and raiders/nutcases like Right Bleeding Bastard, not to mention that the older 4-6-2 engines are much slower than the sexy one they lost.

As for cover, this one is definitely good, you just used the epic exposed Terminator face rip a bit too soon, now we're all expecting it to happen.